8 // 8
( France, 2008, 103 min. )
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako, Gael García Bernal, Jan Kounen, Mira Nair, Gaspar Noé, Jane Campion, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders
During the Millenium Summit held by the United Nations in September 2000, the 189 Heads of States and governments present signed the Millenium Declaration which lead to the creation of the 8 Millenium Development Objectives (such as eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, global partnership for development) which were to be put into action by 2015. Eight directors have used their work to evoke the vital importance of a collective effort to carry out this campaign. 8 is the final result. In Tiya’s Dream by in Ethiopia, a small country school, children have a lesson on the Millennium Development Goals. In The Letter by throughout the activities in a normal day the will remember that education is the only way to be free. In How Can It Be? a woman living in Brooklyn with a husband and a som chooses to leave her sheltered life and follow her sacred values. against the harrowing facts of infant mortality. In The Story of Panshin Beka a pregnant woman living in Amazonia heads to the city with her relatives without any money. In SIDA a man is infected HIV in a hospital in Burkina Faso. The Water Diary depicts the worst drought in history in Australia. Ans finally Person to Person takes place at the G8 summit in Germany, June 2007.
Film is screened in the Films Around the World
Screening shedule
– only for press
22 June
26 June
